carved out

Many thousands of years ago, glacial floods swept through the area and carved out the sloping sides of the current grounds.

Seager writes about being threatened by a patient with a shank carved out of an eyeglass stem.

“We carved out the carcasses and I preserved the skins,” says Kaye.

Consider this: When Schwartz won her seat in the suburbs in 2004, it was carved out to elect a Republican.

I've carved out my own life, based on my own cultural philosophies, and left the debate behind (mostly).

In other words she loses her dower whenever her husband has no estate from which her dower can be carved out.

At the end of this miniature stream system we always find some part of the waste which has been carved out.

Drawing it open, there was disclosed a low cell or cavern, which had been partly carved out of the soft magnesian limestone.

Three sides of the room were carved out of rock, but the remaining side was of masonry, and in that side there was a door.

She works all day, I believe, in a laundry, and she looks as impassive as if she had been carved out of soap.